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00:00One thing I could say to my baby when he watches us back is...

00:05I love you.

00:06I love you so much.

00:07We love you.

00:08You are so loved.

00:09Yeah.

00:10You are so immensely loved and adored already before you even took your first breath.

00:18Right.

00:19And we are so excited to meet you and get to know you.

00:25And you're right here, right now.

00:27You're right here.

00:27You're right here with us.

00:28So, hey.

00:31Hey, y'all.

00:32I'm Soraya.

00:33Hi, I'm Joey Badass.

00:35And this is our Of The Essence cover shoot.

00:47We do have some traditions that we want to pass down to our children.

00:53Some of those being what?

00:55Brought you in this world and I'll take you right out of it.

00:57Gosh.

00:58Straight to the drama.

01:00Straight to the drama.

01:01So, some traditions I feel like I would want to pass down to my children are definitely

01:07like church, having dinner together at the same time, you know, in the crib.

01:13I think that was something that was super special that I was made to do as a kid and take that

01:21time to really just like lock in on family time and connect.

01:25What is another tradition?

01:26What is another tradition?

01:27I'm going to be waking up really early in the morning.

01:29Christmas is big for me.

01:30So, I'm decorating.

01:33You know, we doing one gift Christmas Eve.

01:35You get to open one gift Christmas Eve.

01:37You have to open one gift Christmas Eve.

01:40And then Christmas morning is early.

01:42We opening the gifts and we chilling and watching movies and stuff like that.

01:47But you know what?

01:48Ain't no Santa Claus.

01:49Yeah.

01:50And another tradition I'm passing down is the truth.

01:53There we go.

01:54And my parents definitely told me the truth.

01:56That part.

01:57My mom was like, wait a minute.

01:58Yeah, because I'm sorry.

01:59My kids ain't about to believe in some fat white man coming down the chimney.

02:03You know what I'm saying?

02:04Mama and daddy worked hard for those gifts.

02:09No Santa Claus.

02:10Daddy Claus and Mama Claus.

02:11And I mean, listen, I just really unity, community, doing things together, you know?

02:20Um, I didn't see a lot of that in my childhood.

02:23So, that's something that I would like to implement in my children's lives, for sure.

02:28Another one that I want to pass down that I didn't have a ton of is like family video,

02:35family portraits, family photo books.

02:39Photo albums.

02:40Photo albums.

02:41Yeah.

02:42So, that's something that I'm currently working on and something that I've always had a passion

02:46for doing.

02:47Um, because everything's in the cloud, but...

02:50You working on that by yourself?

02:51I feel like, we're working on it.

02:53There you go.

02:54But, it has been a thing of mine.

02:56I have a lot of photo albums that I've started.

02:59I started, like, early 20s.

03:02I started my photo albums.

03:03So, it's a passion of mine, because I really love the physical.

03:06I like capturing the moment.

03:08I like to go back and flip through the books.

03:10Like, when I was little, I would go to my grandma's house and she would have a book.

03:14And that's something that I always wanted.

03:16I feel like the most important thing that's brought me peace during this whole journey being

03:23pregnant is support.

03:26Support from Joey.

03:29Support from my family and my friends.

03:32Always checking up on me.

03:34Just feeling that love.

03:36I literally cried the other day, because I was just so filled with gratitude and just

03:41filled with love and support.

03:43And I don't think I've felt that much before in that type of way.

03:48So, I'm super blessed.

03:50Like, I feel really good about that.

03:52That's something that's definitely kept me in good spirits.

03:55And when the hormones take over, Babe is a great, a great listener.

04:01I try.

04:03And he definitely keeps me level-headed.

04:08So, I would say support.

04:11Advice for my soon-to-be parents and parents out there.

04:17I would say patience.

04:21You know, patience is literally a virtue.

04:24And it is required to do this parent thing, you know?

04:28I think parenthood puts an emphasis on how much control, like, you don't always have in life.

04:39You know what I mean?

04:40Like, you're only in control of what it is that you do and how you show up every day.

04:45Yeah, you know, you've got to practice patience because these kids, they'll test that.

04:52They'll test that.

04:54You know what I mean?

04:55And, yeah, patience.

04:58Amazing.

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